Allen, R. and Bartley, J. (2017) The Role of the Eleven-Plus Test Papers and Appeals in Producing Social Inequalities in Access to Grammar Schools, National Institute Economic Review, 240(1)R30 – R41. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177%2F002795011724000112.

Allen, R. (2013). Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all, in Clifton, J. (ed) Excellence and equity: Tackling educational disadvantage in England’s secondary schools, London: Institute for Public Policy Research. Available here.

Allen, R. and Burgess, S. (2013). Evaluating the provision of school performance information for school choice, Economics of Education Review, 34(2013) pp.175-190. [An earlier version of this research is available here: CMPO working paper No. 10/241]

Allen, R., Burgess, S. and McKenna, L. (2013). The short-run impact of using lotteries for school admissions: early results from Brighton and Hove’s reforms, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38(1) pp.149-166. [Currently available free here. Early version of research available here CMPO working paper No. 10/244]

Allen, R. (2013). What can we learn from Sweden’s free school reforms? Evidence from quantitative studies of impact on pupil attainment, in Almqvist, K. and Linklater, A. (eds) Images of Sweden II (pp.49-57), Stockholm: Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation. [a shorter version appeared in 2010 in CMPO Bulletin, Issue 10, pp. 4-7].

Allen, R. (2013). Measuring foundation school effectiveness using English administrative data, survey data and a regression discontinuity design, Education Economics, 21(5) pp.431-446. [Early version of research is available here: DoQSS Working Paper No. 10/02]

Allen, R., Coldron, J. and West, A. (2012). The effect of changes in published secondary school admissions on social composition, Journal of Education Policy, 27(3) pp.349-366, [This article is based on work from this Department for Education project: DfE Research Report RR038].

Allen, R. (2011) The economics of education, in B. Dufour and W. Curtis (eds) Studying education: An introduction to the key disciplines in education studies, UK: Open University Press. [Available on Amazon].

Allen, R. and West, A. (2009) Religious schools in London: school admissions, religious composition and selectivity, Oxford Review of Education, 35(4) pp.471-494. [An early version of this research appeared in 2007 as a Summer 2007 BERA conference paper]